Example sentences of "of a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FILMING of a sequel to smash hit The Commitments begins in New York this winter . |
| 2 | The traditional areas still maintained fortunately , cos it did n't affect the knitted outer-wear at this stage , so all the areas we talked about in the north of Yorkshire moor and Scotland , fortunately there 's more of a skill to maintain there . |
| 3 | I have used the analogy of the structure of a document to describe the basis of the curriculum . |
| 4 | A long-net is erected in from of a wood to demonstrate its appearance . |
| 5 | Will he also tell us what the cost of a transfer to trust status would be ? |
| 6 | It was beautiful , two people loving one another all these years and Dr Greenslade being too much of a gentleman to leave his wife and family , and Miss Lavant giving birth to a baby and the baby being handed to a Dynmouth woman . |
| 7 | He was far too much of a gentleman to degrade any woman . |
| 8 | She took the opportunity to retire before her normal retirement date but I am too much of a gentleman to divulge her age . |
| 9 | Bells were rung at either end of a conversation to signal the beginning and end of the call . |
| 10 | While advocating the Work Society , Handy is enough of a realist to suggest that the most likely outcome , if his assumption turns out to be correct , is some kind of muddled compromise between all four possibilities , with considerable unemployment , some measure of a divide between the haves in work and the ‘ leisured ’ have-lesses without jobs , some attempt at the maintenance of full employment as a policy goal , and an increase in the amount of ‘ work ’ done on a ‘ voluntary ’ basis . |
| 11 | He is sufficient of a realist to concede at the end of his argument that in fact they did not support him , but supported the argument on behalf of the Attorney-General . |
| 12 | Erm , the second item is , er , a conversion of a bungalow to house West Hill . |
| 13 | The alliance between the houses of Plantagenet and Capet , secured and cemented by the treaty of Paris , and by marriage proposals , was intended to bring peace to a strife-torn Europe and the furtherance of a Crusade to recover the holy places . |
| 14 | Of all the people of all the land owners there , of all those who had fields , or bits of a field to harvest , God directs Ruth to Boaz and you can see the abundance of the blessing there . |
| 15 | The lowest , most general , and most unambiguously useful level consists in the employment of a computer to perform a humdrum task in less time than would be possible for an unaided human : the search through a text for a quotation , the determination of a word frequency , the construction and analysis of a contingency table , the classification of iconic data . |
| 16 | Whatever the shortcomings of the assumptions made about cause and effect in the relationship between man and the environment ( and man with man ) the model shows how the use of a computer to carry out the vast number of calculations necessary to realize the model can allow the consideration of a very complex situation on lines not previously possible . |
| 17 | However , the initial investigation had revealed that there was some potential for the use of a computer to support the primary functions ( ie identifying and meeting resident needs ) , which in addition could be used to support other tasks , such as processing financial transactions and records . |
| 18 | ‘ It seemed to take less of a hit to give me a concussion and it 's taking me longer to recover , ’ he says . |
| 19 | If the subsidiaries of the Scottish Bus Group are released into the private sector , with all the rhetoric about freedom and competition , one of the rights that will be established is the right of a buyer to sell on to a new owner Whatever safeguards the Minister may tell us , to salve his conscience , are built into the legislation , the truth is that they will disappear immediately further sales take place . |
| 20 | However , the ambit of the Act is extended by s13 which provides that to the extent that the Act applies the exclusion or restriction of liability , it also applies to clauses which : ( a ) make " any liability or its enforcement subject to restrictive or onerous conditions " , such as time limit clauses requiring notification of claims , or commencement of proceedings , within a limited time ; ( b ) exclude or restrict " any right or remedy in respect of the liability " , such as clauses : ( i ) excluding the right of a buyer to reject goods , terminate a contract or exercise a right of set-off , or ( ii ) requiring a customer to accept repair or replacement from the supplier ; ( c ) subject " a person to any prejudice in consequence of his pursuing any right or remedy " ; ( d ) exclude or restrict any rules of evidence or procedure , such as clauses : ( i ) making certificates of quality conclusive evidence that goods correspond with the contract , ( ii ) making one party 's record of a transaction conclusive evidence of the facts recorded , ( iii ) requiring certain evidence in order to obtain particular remedies — eg " no refunds without receipt " . |
| 21 | The plaintiff 's lobsters died after the failure of a pump to oxygenate the water where they were kept . |
| 22 | I looked out of a window to see what he was looking at , but there seemed to be nothing of great note , only the racegoing passengers streaming off their forward carriages en route to write postcards home from the station . |
| 23 | If it were to hold a known instrument off a bed casting then this would need to be declared ; ie " design of a bracket to support instrument off bed " . |
| 24 | ‘ The requirement of a creditor to wait 12 months before claiming relief instead of being able to claim at the end of the first quarter after an insolvency ( as was possible previously ) has an adverse effect on his own business 's cash flow . |
| 25 | The man who in 1788 wrote the pamphlet New Candid and Practical Thoughts on the Law of Imprisonment for Debt & c , shared the attitude of the majority in condemning the ability of a creditor to confine his debtor where there was no question of fraud or abuse of credit . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , despite the apparent well-being of the enterprise , expenses ran high and the failure of a creditor to pay promptly could cause the monthly sheet to indicate a loss if only temporarily . |
| 27 | The pentagonal base of a pyramid formed by five equilateral triangles can be set upon each face of a dodecahedron to form a polyhedron of 60 faces . |
| 28 | It 's more of a trick to see if we can get artistic freedom within a business structure — to see if we can create things and sell them without charging five times our cost . ’ |
| 29 | Now Bower-bird , for all his small size , was a quick-witted fellow , and at once he thought of a trick to play on Cassowary . |
| 30 | The autonomous region of Catalonia has decided to build a synchrotron facility near Barcelona , following rejection last December by CERN , the international particle physics laboratory in Geneva , of a request by Spain for support of a facility to produce large numbers of tau and charm particles . |